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Summary.
We live in a work world obsessed with what we in our research call doing mode — setting goals, forming to-do lists, and checking items off, busily. We talk incessantly about short-term, tangible targets that are easy to measure in our jobs, and our managers tacitly and explicitly encourage us to pay most if not all of our attention to them. And to be sure, “getting stuff done” is necessary for corporate survival.